Microsoft on Monday launched its Talk to Text mobile application, which allows BlackBerry users on Sprint to accurately transcribe their texts and e-mails, at the CTIA trade show in Las Vegas.

Microsoft on Monday launched its Talk to Text mobile application, which
allows BlackBerry users on Sprint to accurately transcribe their texts
and e-mails, at the CTIA trade show in Las Vegas. Microsoft developed
the app with Yap, a leading provider of cloud-based speech recognition
services. The app can be downloaded from the Microsoft/Sprint site Business on Main.

"Yap's speech cloud empowers partners like Microsoft
and Sprint to access very high accuracy speech recognition with little
effort and expense," said Igor Jablokov, CEO of Yap, in a statement.

It
is important to note that several apps of a similar nature are also
currently available in BlackBerry App World
and work with BlackBerrys across all U.S. carriers. Voice to
Text by MyCaption.com claims speech-to-text for e-mail, texts,
memos, tasks, contact notes, and calendar appointments. Vlingo Plus
by Vlingo Corp. says it learns your voice commands over time and lets
you use speech-to-text for e-mail, texts, IM, searching the Web, and
updating your Facebook and Twitter statuses. Back to top

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